Tag: title ix
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Jeffco Public Schools found in violation of Title IX
Civil rights office: Male students occupy 61 roster positions on girls’ sports teams The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday that the Jeffco Public Schools district violated Title IX by permitting male students to access female bathrooms and compete in girls sports. After a nearly nine-month investigation, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil…
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CC students and campus officials: Title IX rules do not sufficiently protect alleged assault victims
By Margaret Freeman and Olivia Link Special to The Gazette As an institution that receives federal funding, Colorado College is subject to federal Title IX regulations, which govern everything under the umbrella of gender equality, including discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault on college campuses. Title IX policy outlines formal procedures for investigating allegations of…
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D-49’s board of education discusses new facility-use policy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save School District 49’s board of education discussed a new district policy that would maintain segregation of district facilities based on biological sex during their regular meeting Thursday night. The proposed policy JBAA would establish clear guidelines to separate toilet, locker room and shower facilities between…
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Federal judge dismisses bulk of claims against UCCS, employees over instructor’s alleged predatory behavior
A federal judge on Monday dismissed several claims by a former University of Colorado Springs student pertaining to one professor’s alleged sexual misconduct towards her. Kristen Gearhart filed suit in April 2024 against the university, its chancellor, multiple employees and mathematics Prof. Mark Tomforde. She alleged Tomforde had a history of misconduct toward women at…
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More school districts considering joining lawsuit against state over gender sports policy
UPDATE 06/25/25: Academy D-20’s board of education voted unanimously to direct the district to draft and implement a policy classifying access to locker rooms, restrooms, and athletic participation as being based on biological sex on June 17. The board then voted to join School District 49’s lawsuit against Colorado’s attorney general, civil rights division and CHSAA on June…
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Appeals court rejects student’s lawsuit against Regis University over misconduct investigation
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday rejected a male student’s lawsuit against Regis University for allegedly performing a flawed investigation into the sexual misconduct complaints about him. The plaintiff, identified as J.L., was the subject of an inquiry after three female students accused him of unwelcome advances or improper touching. Following an investigation that found J.L. violated…
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Appeals court declines to upend women’s volleyball tournament in lawsuit over trans player
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The federal appeals court based in Denver declined on Tuesday to order a Colorado Springs-based athletic organization to bar a transgender woman from participating on her college’s volleyball team and alter the record of wins and losses among schools immediately before a tournament is set…
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Appeals court declines to upend women’s volleyball tournament in lawsuit over trans player
The delay in challenging a collegiate policy addressing trans athletes ‘was not reasonable,’ Judge S. Kato Crews wrote on Monday
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The biggest winner in the Paris Olympics? The Sisterhood | Vince Bzdek
At the first modern Olympiad in Greece in 1896, an athletic woman from Syros seeking to improve her fortunes walked 6 miles to Athens in hopes of competing in the marathon. But women were barred from those first Olympics because Pierre de Coubertin, their founder, believed “an Olympiad with females would be impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic…
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Colorado Supreme Court takes up cases on Title IX investigations, COVID campus closure
The Colorado Supreme Court recently agreed to hear multiple cases implicating a witness’ immunity for making defamatory statements in a school sex assault investigation, whether a university can be sued for closing its campus early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether a man should receive a new trial for his numerous securities fraud convictions. At…